Wustermark railway station
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 Wustermark railway station
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| Location in the network |
Separation station former crossing station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | BWUS |
| IBNR | 8010389 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Wustermark |
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| City / municipality | Wustermark |
| country | Brandenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '5 " N , 12 ° 56' 43" E |
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| Railway stations in Brandenburg | |
The Wustermark station is a train station in the municipality of Wustermark in the Havelland district in Brandenburg, west of Berlin . Several railway lines are or were linked there with the Berlin-Lehrter Railway , the bypass railway and the Berlin outer ring .
location
The station is located at kilometer 30.5 of the Lehrter Bahn on the northern outskirts of Wustermark, around 500 meters north of the town center. The Berlin outer ring crosses the Lehrter Bahn approximately two kilometers to the east . Four kilometers to the east, beyond the outer ring, is the Wustermark marshalling yard , which is often colloquially referred to as "Wustermark", but should not be confused with the Wustermark train station.
history
The station
The station went into operation in 1871 with the Lehrter Bahn. In 1902 the section from Nauen to Wildpark of the Jüterbog – Nauen railway line of the freight bypass line around Berlin was opened, which crossed the Lehrter Railway at Wustermark. The Wustermark train station thus became a small hub. In 1909 the large Wustermark marshalling yard went into operation east of Wustermark. In order to be able to handle the traffic to the new marshalling yard, the Lehrter Bahn from Spandau to Wustermark was expanded to four tracks and the bypass line between Wustermark and Nauen to the Hamburger Bahn was expanded to two tracks.
After the Second World War, traffic on the Lehrter Bahn in the direction of West Berlin was initially partially interrupted and later completely interrupted for passenger traffic. Since then, both the Lehrter and the bypass line have only been operated on a single track due to reparation payments . In 1953 the Berlin outer ring was built to bypass West Berlin, which crossed the Lehrter Bahn near the train station and was connected via connecting curves. Wustermark became a transfer point between the passenger trains from the outer ring and the Lehrter Bahn. In 1983 the Berlin outer ring was electrified, and the two branches from the ring to the Wustermark and Wustermark marshalling stations were also provided with catenary. The express trains between Berlin and Stendal have since been switched from an electric locomotive to a diesel locomotive and vice versa at Wustermark station.
The section of the bypass line from Wustermark to Nauen was electrified in 1993 and served for several years for long-distance traffic between Berlin and Hamburg, as the direct Hamburg line was interrupted. After they were put back into operation in 1995, passenger traffic between Wustermark and Nauen ended, the section was completely shut down in 1996 and partially dismantled. In the second half of the 1990s, the Lehrter Bahn was expanded to become a high-speed line from Hanover to Berlin . The Wustermark station was redesigned. The facilities of the bypass were completely removed.
Today the station mainly serves regional traffic in the direction of Berlin, Rathenow and Potsdam .
passenger traffic
The station was initially a passenger train stop for trains on the Lehrter Bahn between Berlin, Rathenow and Stendal . Express trains did not stop at the station. In 1905, the station was approached by seven pairs of passenger trains, most of which ran from Berlin to Hanover and stopped at all or almost all stations.
After the First World War, increased suburban traffic between Berlin and Wustermark was introduced; trains on this section ran about every half an hour. In addition, the through passenger trains between Berlin and Rathenow stopped in the station. The Berlin suburban tariff has been in effect up to Wustermark since 1921.
After the Second World War, the separate suburban traffic was not resumed. Train traffic in the direction of Berlin was interrupted in Staaken at the city limits, until the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 you could still change to the Berlin S-Bahn. After the Wall was built, Wustermark became a transfer point for travel to East Berlin . The train access remained almost constant from the 1960s to 1990. For example, in the 1985/86 annual timetable:
| Train type | course | frequency |
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| Express train | Stendal - Rathenow - Wustermark - Potsdam Central Station - Berlin Schönefeld Airport - Berlin Schöneweide | 3 pairs of trains a day |
| Passenger train | (Stendal) - Rathenow - Wustermark - Wustermark marshalling yard | 11 pairs of trains |
| Passenger train | Nauen - Wustermark - Priort - Potsdam Central Station (or Potsdam City ) | Nauen - Wustermark approx. 15 train pairs (partly to Staaken) Wustermark - Priort 5–7 train pairs per day, e.g. Sometimes with a change in Priort |
| Passenger train | Falkenhagen (Kr Nauen) - Wustermark - Wustermark marshalling yard - Staaken | almost every hour |
After the political change in the GDR, direct traffic to West Berlin was resumed. From 1991 a line operated between Nauen and Berlin, which also stopped at Wustermark station every two hours. There was also a line between Nauen and Potsdam, also every two hours, and individual trains in the direction of Rathenow. Express train traffic from Berlin via the Lehrter Bahn was also resumed, but the trains ran through the Wustermark station. The trains in the direction of the northern Berlin outer ring have been discontinued.
In 1995, construction work began on the Berlin – Hanover high-speed line. In the course of the construction work, passenger traffic in the direction of Rathenow and Nauen was discontinued and replaced by buses; trains in the direction of Berlin continued to run every two hours until December 1995. It was not until 1998 that passenger traffic on the Lehrter Bahn was resumed, after Nauen traffic was permanently suspended. Today's train offer looks like this (as of 2020):
| line | Line course | Clock frequency |
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| RE 4 | Rathenow - Wustermark - Dallgow-Döberitz - Berlin Jungfernheide - Berlin Südkreuz - Ludwigsfelde - Jüterbog | Hourly |
| RB 13 |
Wustermark - Elstal - Dallgow-Döberitz - Berlin-Spandau - Berlin-Jungfernheide line only runs from Monday to Friday during rush hour |
about every hour |
| RB 21 |
Wustermark - Priort - Golm - Potsdam Park Sanssouci - Potsdam - Griebnitzsee (- Berlin Zoologischer Garten - Berlin Friedrichstrasse ) Line operates Sat – Sun Wustermark - Potsdam Griebnitzsee - Friedrichstrasse only during rush hour |
Hourly (Mon-Fri) Two- hourly ( Sat-Sun) |
Investments
The station on the Lehrter Bahn received its station building south of the tracks. The bypass line, opened in 1902, crossed under the Lehrter Bahn about two kilometers east of the station and then ran parallel to it into the Wustermark station, track connections between the two lines were created in the eastern part of the station. After the Second World War, a connecting curve was built from the direction of Nauen towards Rathenow. The Berlin outer ring, built in 1953/54, received connecting curves from the direction of Wustermark both to the north and to the south. The facilities for local freight traffic were located east of the Lehrter Bahn platform. The bypass was given a separate platform on the north side of the tracks, to which a pedestrian bridge led. Immediately afterwards, the bypass line in the direction of Nauen separated from the Lehrter Bahn. While the Lehrter Bahn platform was west of the bridge, that of the bypass was east of it.
With the construction of the high-speed line after 1995, the station was completely rebuilt and the facilities of the bypass line including the connections to Nauen were removed. The connection to the outer ring to the north also went out of service and was dismantled.
Today the station on the old Lehrter Bahn line consists of an island platform with two tracks, followed by a track without a platform. To the north of this is the double-track high-speed line. West of the station there is a connection between the old line and the high-speed line. The regional express trains that stop at Wustermark station switch to the high-speed line there, as the old line west of Wustermark is not electrified. To the east of the station, the old line is single-tracked over the Havel Canal and then branches off into two separate parallel lines in the direction of the Wustermark marshalling yard and a connection to the southern outer ring.
The platform can be reached via a pedestrian bridge from the forecourt over the southern track, a station building no longer exists.
At the end of 2013, two elevators on the pedestrian bridge went into operation so that the platform is barrier-free . The construction costs of around one million euros were mainly financed from the federal infrastructure acceleration program.
Web links
- Track systems in the station and some permissible speeds on the OpenRailwayMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Railway Office , list of the federally closed lines in the state of Brandenburg since 1994 , in the network
- ^ Reichs-Kursbuch 1905 , reprinted by Ritzau Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn , 2005, ISBN 3-935-10108-2
- ^ Course book of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, inland traffic, annual timetable 1985/86
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion Berlin, track plan of the Wustermark station, 1967
- ↑ Wustermark station barrier-free. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn, December 18, 2013, archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved December 29, 2013 .